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28 Oct 2013

A Warm Welcome to Malawi

Border
crossing: Zambia to Malawi

to

Name: Mchinji

No. of officials: 5

Building: 3

Time taken: 1 hour

Other: Crossing was smooth with
Customs & Immigration in the same building (one for each Zambia &
Malawi). No Visas needed. But instead Josi had the first “hassle” of
the trip – the official in Malawi Immigration looked at her and said “hmm, I
love blonde girls, I don’t know why” while doing the twin handed groping
gesture…what a warm welcome!

No Road Tax is needed as the car is
less than 3 tons. The part that took the
longest was Third Party Insurance – you had to get touts to exchange your
Zambian Kwatcha into Malawian Kwatcha in order to pay the insurance as they
apparently “didn’t take any other currencies”.
While we were waiting for this Josi chatted to two local children who
would have taken everything she owned if they could – they even asked for the car!